CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Self-driven to eat, Maud reordered (9) 6 Boast dancing shoe of a sort (5) 9 Scary noise inside box in rearmost car (7) 10 Dirty player’s cold, then warmer (7) 11 Squeeze behind the front part of a foot (4) 12 Moonshine party taking tree down (10) 14 A job with the French evangelist

(7) 15 No fur seal swimming (7) 17 Beer that’s disgusting consumed by rats (7) 20 Plug small movie about ghosts (7) 22 Write pitch about deal for five-foot line (10) 23 Run into pastry cook too much (4) 25 More annoying runner caught by nobleman (7) 26 Vocal insult is an act of deception (7) 27 Discover tip about start of race (5) 28 Fellows beside a good Great Lake zoo (9)

DOWN

1 Church entering a bawdy guy’s name (9) 2 English explorer brought back company product for smokers (7) 3 Feeling of bad fate reversed (4) 4 Adolescent Gene ate bananas (7) 5 Woodland creature eating fish cracker? (7) 6 Novel Nosferatu gains $1000 for mystery writer (3,7) 7 Gives away bit of hope in wagers (7) 8 Temple reading to cheer (5) 13 Lack of progress upset antagonist (10) 16 Producer Michaels still audited spectacles (9) 18 Problem remembering I am sane, strangely (7) 19 Proposition the “Stand” band about love (7) 20 Member of the family walks forward (7) 21 Air bag carried inside by plumber’s helper (7) 22 Dog I left for student (5) 24 Floating piece of ice in town’s sound (4)